Newspapers we should add next
Tell us what publications would be of most use to you. You can be as general (Victorian cycling magazines) or specific (South Wales Argus) as you wish! We take on board all of your suggestions but are bound by copyright restrictions and our agreements with publishers, these form the boundaries of what we may publish online.
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Daily Herald
The Daily Herald was an extremely important daily labour newspaper. It is especially important for anyone studying labour history in Britain. The First World Years have been digitised, but it would be great to have the interwar years made available as soon as possible.
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Ross-shire Journal
There is very poor coverage of the Highlands. The "Ross-shire" has been the voice of Ross-shire since the 1870s.
105 votesClosed - Now live ·
AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Dear Readers
We now have the Ross-shire Journal live on the website. We have 1,670 Issues available from 1878-1910 with small gaps.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/rossshire-journal
Thank you for your suggestion
Team BNA
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The Monmouthshire Merlin
and South Wales Argus
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Tit-Bits, Answers, Pearson's Weekly, and Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
Some of the best-selling weekly newspapers from the nineteenth century have yet to be digitised. Tit-Bits, Answers, Pearson's Weekly, and Ally Sloper's Half Holiday all sold hundreds of thousands of copies each week and had an enormous influence on Victorian culture. I occasionally tweet example from my own bound volumes of these periodicals and I've lost count of the times that people have asked me where they can find them online.
As well as being packed with entertaining content, these papers also conducted a lot of competitions and other forms of reader interaction - this often resulted in readers' names…
88 votesClosed - Now live ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Dear Readers
We are delighted to say that we have now added Pearson’s Weekly and Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday to The Archive. As the Readers who voted for this title we are informing you first!
As you know we digitise from the collections of the British Library. We have digitised all that was made available to us.
You can read a sample issue of each for FREE on their title page.
Pearson’s Weekly https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/pearsons-weekly
Ally Slopers Half Holiday https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/ally-slopers-half-holiday
We hope you enjoy reading these papers. Be sure to tell us about your discoveries via Twitter, @BNArchive.
Happy Reading!
Team BNA
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Salford Advertiser
Salford still has no papers covering the area after 1910
Please add suitable content to cover more dates
88 votes -
Ireland's Saturday Night
Northern Ireland's Premier weekend sports newspaper (publication now ceased) for almost 100 years. Filled with amazing historical sporting records which needs to be available on line
84 votes -
Birmingham Post
Please add the next instalments
79 votes -
The Derry Journal
The Londonderry Journal (later renamed 'The Derry Journal') is one of the earliest Irish newspapers, which was first published in 1772, and is also still being published today. There is a distinct lack of newspapers from the north west of Ulster on the British Newspaper Archive; adding this newpaper set would remedy that!!!
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Volunteer Service Gazette
Volunteer Rifle Corps were established in 1859 due to perceived threat of French invasion. The movement was not expected to last but by 1888 there were over 220,000 members. Great reviews took place and rifle tournaments were widely reported and patronised by Royalty. Volunteer Rifle Corps are the forerunners of the Territorial Army. Battalion records are scattered around the country. The "Volunteer Service Gazette" was the service newspaper but copies are scare.
Making the "Volunteer Service Gazette" available on line would do family, local and military historians a great service in gaining access to a rich but largely untouched source…
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62 votes
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Macclesfield express
Rich source of Cheshire history just waiting to be tapped into.
61 votes -
Any West Sussex newspapers
The Observer, The Post, The Gazette, anything to do with West Sussex please
61 votes -
Kinematograph Weekly
British Cinema trade journal - the BFI hold bound copies and microfiche copies.
The University of East Anglia have a wonderful database - but no copies on-line.
Much in demand by British Cinema researchers and would compliment 'The Era' and "Stage and Television Today' already available.61 votes -
Melton Times
Melton Times
59 votes -
Harrogate area newspapers
Harrogate Advertiser, Nidderdale Herald
Ripon Gazette
Knaresborough Post56 votes -
Bell's Life in London
Bell's Life in London from 1822 until The Sporting Life emerged on the scene was the only real source of sports info.
56 votesClosed - Now live ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Hello, Wishing you all a very happy and healthy New Year! I We have some good news to share with you. Having been busy processing Bell’s Life in London, the issues are now beginning to appear on the website! We will be including 1822-1871: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?newspapertitle=bell%E2%80%99s%20life%20in%20london%20and%20sporting%20chronicle&sortorder=dayearly
Best wishes,
Team BNA
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Middlesex County Times
Late 19th century coverage would provide fascinating insight into large section of what is now major part of Greater London
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50 votes
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Weekly Dispatch (London)
The largest circulating weekly paper of the 1830s through to the 1840s. Radical and widely read and read aloud in ale houses across England. The paper has not been digitised elsewhere and its lack of digital availability has marginalised its prominence in recent studies of the age of reform. BL's microfilm copies should be digitised.
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Sleaford Gazette and Sleaford Journal
Sleaford is a market town in Lincolnshire and the Gazette was the main paper from 1854 to 1960; the Journal was printed from 1889 to 1929, when it was incorporated into the Gazette. It would be a very useful resource for local and family history studies in the area.
49 votes
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